shire

The CCN represents England's 20 county councils and 17 unitary authorities in shire areas.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024

Buckingham Palace said the teddies had been collected with the help of shire horses and almost 200 volunteers - and were being "well looked after".

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2022

More recently, his works have also provided a fertile shire for nationalists who see themselves in his heroic archetypes.

From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2022

A giant metal box sits in a field next to the shire council: one of several air-quality monitoring stations paid for by the mining and power-generating industries.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021

It was probably the shire reeve’s horse, for above the slow clatter over the cobbles Robin could hear the grating of runners on a kind of sled the horse was dragging.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

It is one of the society’s 20 kingdoms in North America, each of which is subdivided into provinces, baronies and shires.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2018

The world the mythical Daily Mail reader inhabits, the world that lives pretty comfortably in the shires and hankers for monocultural 1950s Arnos Grove, is always depicted in its pages as being under threat.

From The Guardian ● May 14, 2017

The 1,200 constituents who showed up for his forum — residents of Hollywood, Burbank, Silver Lake — are terrified of what’s been wrought by the faraway shires of Oshkosh, Grand Rapids, Erie and Dayton.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2017

The American Edward Payson Weston had attempted to walk 2,000 miles around the shires of England in exactly 1,000 hours, missing by just a few miles.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2014

The upstanding fences, although lower than those in the shires, are pretty high if you look at the depth of the ground from which you take off.

From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Greville, Beatrice Violet Graham